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@ouchthatonehurt
“In The Heights and the Moana soundtrack are better than Hamilton,” I say into the mic.
The crowd boos, yelling at me to get off stage. I begin to walk off in shame when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.
“She’s right,” they say. I look for the owner of the voice. There in 5rd row stands: Lin Manuel Miranda.
Lesbians
*APPLAUSE*
Bi girls
*APPLAUSE*
Ace Girls
*APPLAUSE*
Aro girls
*APPLAUSE*
Bestiality is okay when peacocks are involved.
you just got pregnant and it only took 7 seconds
whoops, there it goes my panties yikes
sebastian stan: uhh-
me:
sometimes i remember that hawkeye is canonically deaf in the comics and the mcu erased his disability. that they ignored his abusive childhood and gave him a family - erasing his attachment issues. in the comics hes this self-destructive goofy disabled depressed guy who drinks coffee by the pot just to stay awake and is always covered head to toe in band-aids. sometimes i remember that the mcu erased everything about clint barton but the bow and arrow. and it ruins my whole day.
important things to remember:
ray toro went to college and studied film
ray toro is puerto rican
he plays guitar, piano, drums, and sings
he wrote a huge percentage of guitar parts and was a huge factor into mcr’s success and sound
without ray mcr would not have been nearly as successful or had the same sound (or may not have happened at all)
ray wrote and recorded and sang and mixed everything for his solo stuff by himself
ray toro is so incredibly important
people like to refer to mcr as gerard, frank, and mikey and obviously the three of them are just as important but ray is so incredibly talented and so severely underrated
please do not let bandom erase ray toro
Also:
Gerard once said (can’t remember when) that if it weren’t for ray, they wouldn’t have made more music after Bullets, but ray’s positivity motivated them to.
Ray Toro had been the focal point of MyChem and I really don’t know why he’s so underappreciated. I mean, everyone in the band was a special key, but Ray was… was way more special and also not recognized like that. Evrry real fan should give more importance to him, like he deserves
WE FUCKING LOVE TORO IN THIS HOUSE
*slams table* WE STAN
He really outed us huh
… I want to see the rest of this show now…
if you really want to fuck a vampire then i’d say you’re down for the count
damn thats a lot of notes and a lot of vampire fuckers, i guess its time to raise the stakes
funny story
when I was little, I would go on Nickelodeon.com all the time and they had this game similar to club penguin except it was called Nicktropolis. and if you forgot your password, a security question you could choose was “what is your eye color?” and if you got it right it’d tell you your password. so I would go to popular locations in Nicktropolis and write down random usernames who were also in those areas, and then i would log out and type in the username as if it were my own and see which of these usernames had a security question set to “what is your eye color?” (which was most of them, since it was easy and we were all kids). i would then try either brown, blue, or green, and always get in, then I would go to their house and send all of their furniture and decorations to my own account’s. and if it I didn’t want it, i could sell it for money
I love robbery and fraud
when I was 14 I worked in a grocery store and one day I got to bag Stephen King’s groceries and of course, being the little horror fiction nerd I am I was completely starstruck
I think he thought I was gonna ask for an autograph because I was not even lowkey staring I was full on moon-faced and bouncing and he kept looking over at me hesitantly like aw jeez kid fuck off
anyways I finally managed to squeak out that I was a huge fan and asked for advice on writing, “how do I write as well as you do?” in my horrible thick German accent and broken ass English and he gave me the best writing advice I have ever received
“shit kid, stop worrying about how other people do it and just write your story”
14 years later my wife and I nearly hit him with our car because he was jaywalking
Some subtle but nice things about Mad Max I just noticed:
None of the people, including the villains, call Furiosa a “bitch” for all I can remember, which is a common thing for movie villains to say to a female protagonist. The villains only call her a traitor. None of the people in this movie use a character’s gender as an insult. This is great.
I think the director not only didn’t sexualize the female characters, he also set up an terrible yet interesting world where sexualization is probably too much a luxury to even exist.
Take the wives as an example, they are called pretty and precious by Immortan Joe and the War Boys only because they are not only fertile but also have no developmental deficiency, which is a rare thing in that world, not because they are, well, sexy.
Even though the wives are kept as “sex” slaves, and rape were involved, but they are not “sexualized” both in the eyes of the audience and the movie characters. Not in a way “Slave Leia” is sexualized in Star Wars anyway, which is obviously to please the male audience and the male villains.
The wives are reduced to objects for their “functions”, not because they are eye candies. Everybody else in the movie are objectified in the same, almost animal level kind of way: fertile female as breeder and milk producer (the scene is shot clearly not because “hoho male audience must love to see some big titties”, but to show mother milk is a precious nutrition source (which is true) only the high commanders can have); male as cannon fodders with short life span, their value not more than dogs; healthy captives and probably non-combatants as blood donor (Max was captured and forced to donate blood to the War Boys). It’s kind of like how we keep the cows for milk, oxes for steaks, and dogs to hunt. There’s nothing “sexual” in it despite it’s all about survive and reproduce. You can say everyone is fair in this terrible way.
And for an story angle, I think by letting the characters in the movie not dropping any “sexy babes” comments onto the wives (despite how easily this “sex slaves as breeder” troop can be hella sexist), it really helps the audience not to focus on their sex appeal but on the fact that they are not treated as human, thus seeing them as human beings. It also shows the director really respects and put thoughts to those characters, not just eye candies in an action movie.
I’m not sure that it was that the world didn’t have sexualization, as that the sexualization wasn’t what Miller wanted to promote.
I’m pretty sure it’s a directorial/authorial decision rather than something inherent in the world, given how the rest of the post also points out things attributable to storytelling choices rather than the world itself. The movie not only didn’t dwell on sexual violence but also didn’t use the ‘camera’s gaze’ in a sexual way on the wives (there were no lingering shots on breasts/legs/ass, there was just the prominent pregnant belly and the highlighting of the chastity belt). The belly, the belt, and the wives clothes highlighted that they were sexualized by the men in power, but the story itself didn’t reenact this violence on them.
And that’s, sad to say, amazing. This should be the norm but it isn’t; and Miller needs to just freaking make movies forever like I would legit give him some years of my life at this point if he would make more of these things.
The OP is mistaking filmmaker perspective for world perspective here. The wives are absolutely sexualized by the villains. You don’t dress women in those ridiculous gauze bikini getups unless you’re sexualizing them. The gauze bikinis are in the movie, undeniable.
Neither can you argue that the gauze bikini’s are in the movie for the benefit of a the movie’s male audience. Even when they are literally bathing together, we don’t see any water running down chests while the models arch their backs and run their fingers through their hair and sigh pleasurably. Instead we see a bunch of women perfunctorily rinsing off legs and feet, looking exhausted. When they see max, they take on fearful, closed off expressions, and project fearful, closed off body language.
The movie makes it quite clear both that the villains went out of their way to sexualize these women, and that the filmmakers went out of their way to humanize these same women.
Moreover, the reason Imperator Furiosa is not sexualized by the villains is not because the men don’t objectify women, but rather because Furiosa has taken great pains to make herself genderless under their gaze.
From Entertainment Weekly:
It was Theron herself who unlocked the image of the androgynous warrior—a woman who has escaped the fate of other women by erasing her gender.
“I just said, ‘I have to shave my head,’” Theron recalls. Furiosa is a war-rig operator living in a place where all other females have been enslaved as breeding and milking chattel. But Furiosa is barren and therefore of no value to the despot Immortan Joe and his soldiers. She is considered worthless. ”They almost forget she’s a woman, so there is no threat,” she says. “I understood a woman that’s been hiding in a world where she’s been discarded.” [x]
The reason we don’t hear the villains using the overtly sexist and objectifying language we’re used to hearing in these kinds of movies is not because the villains are “egalitarian oppressors” who objectify all persons equally.
It’s because their perspective is not part of the movie’s narrative. The movie is not told from the point of view of sexist men. The movie is not pandering to an audience of sexist men.
This is a story about sexists, told by non-sexists.
I know it’s a bit confusing, because we’re so used to seeing stories about sexists told by sexists. We’re so used to sexism being portrayed in a certain way, that when it’s portrayed in a different way, it’s hard to recognize.
So let me clear something up – when a man calls a woman a bitch in a movie, that is not the filmmaker’s way of showing the audience he is sexist; that is the filmmaker’s way of showing the audience that his sexist point of view is worth hearing.
I’m gonna say that again:
When a male character calls a female character a bitch in a movie, that is not the filmmaker’s way of showing the audience the character is sexist; that is the filmmaker’s way of showing the audience that the character’s sexist point of view is worth hearing.
fascinating read!
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Excellent commentary by lierdumoa. One of the many, many, many reasons why MMFR will be in my top 3 favorite films of all time for… probably all time.
My personal favourite aspect of the moment where Max stumbles upon the wives bathing is because it is framed as an entrancing moment of desire - but not for the women. For the water. The camera focuses in on the flowing stream of the water just spilling freely onto the ground. The water, not the women, is the object. And that’s refreshing on multiple levels (pun intended).
11/10 a good doggo posing for his hooman’s insta
Yall forgot the final product.
